stargateficrec | The Stars Up Above You Feel Wrong, by Dragojustine (G)

Show: Stargate SG-1

Rec Category: Jack and Daniel friendship
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warnings: apocafic, maybe
Author on LJ:

dragojustine
Author's Website: fic index
Link: The Stars Up Above You Feel Wrong

Why This Must Be Read: Jack and Daniel, waiting... to find out if someone else successfully saved Earth.

This is beautiful, thoughtful, intense. It shows Jack's intelligence and Daniel's recognition of it, wordless communication and depth of understanding, all against the background of a maybe-possibly apocalypse that they can't do anything about.

This is so them, written with deft prose and aching characterization. Read this one and savor.

"Orion's belt," Jack said, and let his arm drop back down to the grass.

"Huh," Daniel said, lifting his head. "Spread out like that?"

"Trick of perspective in three dimensions. Constellations aren't groups."

Again that shadowy peripheral-vision nod. "So how did you figure that out?"

Jack jerked his thumb over his shoulder at the dark building behind him. "Our buddies are very keen to know where their new allies live. Carter was helping them correlate their star charts to ours. Lots of complicated software."

"Which you watched avidly while pretending not to understand any of it."

Daniel had had his number for a long time. It was worth letting the pretense slip here, to distract them both.